skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food Fight 30 - DevOps culture and metrics-driven engineering
I found as I switched away from the two space style that I was taught in school back to a single space (coincidentally, after reading the referenced Slate article), there was a short period where the single space felt and looked weird.

Nowadays, I use monospace fonts everywhere, and that second space looks downright horrible, and completely extraneous. I feel like the author here countered a fairly well-reasoned article (Slate) with a very subjective point.

Regarding the note on Vim's sentence handling, I'll probably deal with the occasional failure on a word like Mr. rather than having to type out that extra space after every sentence.
Er before paracutes in WWI there was plenty of evidence - pilots prefereing to jump to there deaths rather than burn
It may be better for your teeth, but I wonder if chugging it will spike your insulin more.
It's management's job to set up an environment where bad ideas get killed. It's not their job necessarily to kill bad ideas themselves.
Basically; I copy edited this article once she was done so I'm biased. But I do agree the rashness didn't help. HOWEVER! She was planning on writing something like this for many months.
In the long run, I think a calmer article would have helped her but I absolutely agree with what she has to say.
Codecademy Doesn't Fall Short: You Just Don't Know What It Is
Another vote for Linode .. slightly pricer than others but high quality + root access for my zany schemes
AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites
Sounds like you hired the wrong kind of agency. You don't want a "new media" or ad agency. These guys are used at gobbling up the huge corporate budgets to create big splash marketing that doesn't make sense for any company with less than 8-figure revenue. They do amazing work, but it is utterly pointless before you have the business model locked in to the point that you can scale.

But this is not what all agencies do. If you lack a technical co-founder then you want a technical agency. A ThoughtWorks or Hashrocket or Go Free Range is going to be much better at understanding the nature of a tech startup and they will be able to help you iterate in a reasonable with much better talent than you will ever find by yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexualism#Prevalence

The DSM-IV (1994) quotes a prevalence of roughly 1 in 30,000 assigned males and 1 in 100,000 assigned females seek sex reassignment surgery in the USA.

So there's a 3x factor feeding into that.
Can Healthcare Afford to Not be on Social Media?
Commemorating the First Anniversary of Dennis Ritchie’s Death
I'm not sure what you were hoping to get from that post. I have thought about it. I know people in the US don't identify as atheists because the word has lost its original meaning there. So?

People don't refuse to self-identify as feminists because "hateful organizations and individuals have been attacking the word as a proxy for attacking the concept", they refuse because other self-identified feminists promote hatred and radicalism that most people find objectionable.

Who is being let off of the hook? Radical gender feminists took over feminism and alienated women. What hook are they supposed to be on and how are they being let off?
You are founding a SquatUp [...and that's not cool]
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Also, her employers are a MAJOR agency. They have been partners of the year for Windows Phone, their client list is both long and high-profile.

"And Laura, if you are reading this, a small bit of advice for you. Next time an article "enrages" you, re-read it and I guarantee you will see that it doesn't say what you think it does."
I think you need to take your own advice.
Disney's whole creativity strategy was built around this sort of idea, except they didn't have a Chief Dissent Officer. They made the role of "Critic" an integral part of the creative team.
What the equation says to me is that acidity sets the stage for tooth damage, but as bad as that is, once you start feeding the bacteria in that set stage, you are in real trouble.

However, the entire article is a hypothesis. It is a best guess by somebody with scientific knowledge, but there is no reason to believe the real formula shouldn't be 10^(5.5-ph)+10(mg/cl sugar) or something completely different.

However, my son and daughter both need a science fair project soon. I wonder if there is a way to formalize this a little.
When editing text source, I press return after every sentence. It doesn't affect the compiled product and makes diffs much easier to read. The alternatives seem to be (a) longlines-mode or similar with one very long line for the whole paragraph or (b) fill-paragraph with text wrap at 80 chars or whatever you like. Diffs are much more difficult to make sense of in either of these cases.
He mentions why it does that, but he doesn't say why he opts not to preserve the two spaces: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop
drama++
Server-Side Device Detection: History, Benefits And How-To
That was kind of the same question I had when I read it, but I came to the (completely uninformed) conclusion that probably, the body's absorption rate was self-metering enough that it probably wouldn't make a difference drinking it all at once vs. drinking it over a 20 minute period.

I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support this however, so who knows?
Our ufo's 2
Seems having only a dentist on hand for that "experiment" is akin to having a mechanic as your only expert for analyzing a car wreck? As the author even concedes, an abundance of anecdotes is not evidence.

Was it so hard to find a chemist way back in aught-9? (Go down to the nearest uni and find a chem major at least...)

The wide distribution of oversimplified, media-sanitized, pseudo-science is likely one of the affectations of Western culture that has kept it from progressing further for a solid 60 years--since television gave the ability for snake oil salesmen to multiply their effectiveness. The internet exponentially increased that ability.
there is a reddit dedicated to small snippets of code called tinycode, but it does not focus in any particular language. Github maybe your best option.
Their function also improves the results if the drink is more basic. A drink with a pH of 13 would have an amazing score on here.

If you normalize the pH above 5.5 since it has "little to no effect" things on the lower end of the results are better, with milk being worse than water, and chocolate milk being worse than milk.
He should have called it "AndroidBootstrap". Since Twitter Bootstrap is a thing that this seems much more closely aligned with.
I hear you. The really sad part is that shipping your mvp is really "just the beginning," whereas a lot of agencies and clients assume that the job is done.
Can you watermark and password protect pdf files? If so this would be a great service for selling ebooks.
I ain't touching the whole argument over form, but this:

> Laura's not the only person who's expressed this view. Many people in the comemnts have agreed (and disagreed)

I think gets at precisely the point. Your average HN reader, the one who's making these agreeing or disagreeing comments, is probably a cis man who doesn't think of himself as sexist, and understandably doesn't want to think that his industry is sexist either.

The criticism here is that a relatively thin article denying sexism is being given more weight and credence than a much more exhaustive article documenting sexism, because 1) it's saying what we want to hear, and 2) its author is a woman, which-- well, I shouldn't need to point out the irony there.
I think that's why BSD became to base of NeXT which was really in the workstation space at the time (and would later become Apple OS X). The thing with Linux was that many early web hackers would take a used PC and turn it into a server as their first hello world project. However many of these webmasters weren't hardcore Unix geeks with CS degrees but hobbyists -- and then the hobbyists turned pro.
> (and it's worse when people point it out -- I was asked an interview for a programming teaching position at a university BY A PROFESSOR "how will you handle it if people don't take you seriously as a female?")

There are good ways and bad ways to broach the topic, but this is an important question to answer. Not as a hiring filter per se, but as a likely problem that needs a solution.

I went to college with (And teaching-assisted / tutored) classmates older than me, and I had to deal with the issue of "how will you handle it if people don't take you seriously as a young person?" (I didn't deal with it very well, until I got old enough that a couple of years of age difference wasn't significant anymore. Gender doesn't fade away like youth does, so gender-related issues needs active problem-solving)
And things are better understood with some context. Often, there is nothing better than the recollection of "those who were there" for understanding why something is the way it is.

And not infrequently, "those who were there" hold a diversity of opinions. Having access to these provides the reader with context.
Essential JavaScript: the top five testing libraries
Very good points in this article. But the problem is that if you are a non-technical founder without connections you are extremely unlikely to convince anyone very good to join your startup. It's probably better to hire a technical (not design-focused!!) agency and pay a premium as you will get much better and more maintainable code than if you hire a junior-level or just plan mediocre software dev off the street. The trick is identifying the right agency.
It's really worth noting that there are substantial performance ramifications to your choice here, in terms of CPU time for generation, memory usage, I/O, and GPU time for rendering.

The resizable image background technique will be the fastest option (provided you don't need to programmatically tweak the appearance). Next would be the full-sized background (which needlessly wastes memory). Then the CG-based approach, which could actually perform better than the full-sized background if you had generated a resizable image—the technique presented here needlessly wastes memory and CPU time by generating a full-width image. But it will still perform worse in basically all cases than the resizable-image-from-disk technique, so you would only want to do that if the parameters need to be tweaked at runtime.

The CAGradientLayer-based approach (as written) is a very poor idea unless you need the animated transitions because it requires extremely expensive off-screen drawing passes due to the masking. If your situation permits you to use "overdrawn" masking (as I discussed in WWDC 2012's "Polishing Your Rotation Animations"), this would actually perform quite well—less memory consumption than all the other options; small rendering cost each frame. See also WWDC 2011's "Understanding UIKit Rendering" for more on graphics performance with UIKit.

I guess it's also worth noting that the cost of masking CALayers with a borderRadius is much lower in iOS 6 than iOS 5, but don't go nuts: it's still way higher than all these other options.
The J Primer - Why J (APL without the weird symbols)
Isn't sexism like anything else? There are extreme cases, quite often though just speaking up resolves it.

I have a stutter and I have been in many jobs where I have been the butt of some jokes. I have been overlooked or talked over. People have played 'guess the word' when i get stuck... i could go on.

I find in the vast majority of cases a quiet word, a quick bit of education or just straight up shutting someone down makes such problems perminantly go away.

There is sexism in the tech industry, i am sure there is some racism and whatever else as well. There will always be people who intentionally or not say something that offends. Your work place experience will depend on how you react to that.

My experience of the tech industry has shown that it handles complaints well and deals with issues that arise in a positive way. I think this is what people should focus on.

I saw a documentary about a fish market where women should be good wives at home. The few women who worked there were subject to daily sexist remarks. They had a choice. Ignore it or quit... There are far worse places to work than in technology
Read the comments on her blog too. First is from a woman, and go down.

There are people on both sides of the fence, as you'd expect. But the the original commenter was so blindsided in her views about how she thought the OP was blinded in her views, she didn't even stop to smell the irony.
Here is the video that inspired this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtJ77qsLrpw
Wait, you are going to buy an iPhone because that would _hinder_ you from taking up app development since you don't have a Mac? That is quite bizarre yes, but each to his own :)
Any thoughts on performance impact, on the app responsiveness, of each approach ?
Heh. Worse: web pages that need to be "ported" (e.g., to old versions of IE).
How Zapier made us support a hundred new services in half an hour
pls check the headlines in your rss feed. they are within the text. "day, date" is headline. bit uncomfy to scan.
So is every minute evangelizing for AWS....
High speed rail should be the first to go. Robotic, electric cars (coming in the very short term) allow for point to point travel at equal speeds. The efficiency may be somewhat lower by mass, but not to any extent that people will care. At least air travel is much faster than cars or rail.

This makes for a funny* situation regarding things like CA high speed rail plan for SF to LA which is currently slated for completion in 2028. If this turns out to be 10 years after the first commercial robotic car, it will likely be obsolete prior to its first run.

*Depends on your sense of humor.
My wife: Swam competitively, studied philosophy and religion as an undergrad -> Neurosurgeon.

More anecdata: all of the best engineers I know came to it late, after doing other things first.
It's quite common when companies open-source stuff. Google does this too.
Of course, in that time even more than today, sex & status were deeply intertwined. It wasn't a coincidence that the secretarial pool was all female and the executive suite was all male: women had typing classes in school, went to secretarial school, and got jobs as secretaries or other low-status positions; men became got jobs as clerks or went to college, and if the bosses liked them, they were promoted to executive positions. There usually wasn't much of a career track from secretary to executive.
Drive-by format, that might have to go in my hacker news dictionary of awesome.
Speeding up local DNS queries in OSX
I didn't see any discussion of new revenues or profits stemming from their decision to open source their code.
I tried downloading the free pack from within the app, and it crashed out to Springboard. iPhone 4S iOS 5.0.1
If you've never heard of Lucene and are wondering why you should care, the IBM quick start guide is a decent place to get to know what it is and what you can do with it:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/os-apache-luc...

Basically, its a search engine; if you need to run one of those yourself, it's really neat.
May be Appfog might work on enabling ssh because on local installs of cloudfoundry, you can run ssh commands.

http://blog.newrelic.com/2012/01/26/removing-the-operating-s...

https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/topic/bosh-us...
There are sometimes font rendering bugs, and you might want to check your ClearType settings. There's a tuning wizard in the control panel.
Pedantically speaking, Usenet and email at least are part of the web. They aren't http-based, but the "web" is really anything with addressable URIs, and both usenet and email have well-defined URI formats, eg:

nntp://<host>:<port>/<newsgroup-name>/<article-number>
mailto:<user>@<domain>
Great question, there is going to be a follow up on the results - we just need a couple more months for a better sample.
>According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp.... many studies have found that there is a persistent gap that remains, even when you control for education level, hours worked, experience, etc.

It does not say that. It says one single economist testified to that affect. And that others offered rebuttals. Controlling for hours worked, education, experience, etc leaves you with the opposite of what you think: there is no gap. And the exact page you are linking to points out that the gap also goes the other direction when you don't account for confounding factors, do you also think there is widespread sexism against men lowering their income?

"According to an analysis of Census Bureau data released by Reach Advisors in 2008, single childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most United States cities, with incomes that were 8% greater than males on average"

The only studies I've seen that claim there is still an unexplained difference after accounting for confounding factors all have the same flaw. They do not actually account for hours worked. They classify "full time" as all the same. When 60 hours and 40 hours are considered the same, you are not controlling for hours worked. They end up with figures at around 5% pay gap. Which confirms the nonexistence of this gap, as the average full time hours per day of a man is 8.14, and a woman is 7.75.

The US department of labor commissioned a report on the subject. They found that there is no wage gap, the pay gap can be fully explained by differences in work (job choice, hours worked, etc): http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...
How does this compare to Flippa and Apptopia?
What features do web writers expect that LaTeX doesn't have? I think LaTeX supports fonts (well XeLateX does).
I think it's totally true.
I don't want to dismiss the fact that a great story combined with a great game - "Deus Ex" comes to mind (i liked the story) - can make for maybe a slightly better experience, but the underlying philosophy, that gameplay >>> story is totally true.

If i really think about it:
Would i have been equally happy with the Deus Ex game consisting of different Levels/Challenges instead of a whole story?
I really think it wouldn't have mattered that much. Just going through different challenges/stages with no big story to tell, i would have been equally happy with that.

Note: I am of course talking about the original Deus Ex, not that i don't like the newer one, but i just have never played it.
Consumer Genetics Starts to Pay Off
Could this be better than user-generated content? What happens when the maintainer/editor gets bored / finds another hobby?
7 Considerations Before Getting Your (Promoted) Tweet Wet
What do the Y-Combinator and 500 Startups communities think of DevBootCamp?
Bill Cosby took another approach. (Both are valid, attacking the front and the flank.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_(1965_TV_series)

> I Spy's contribution to American television and society by being the first series to star a black and a white actor together,

> (Culp revealed in his audio commentary on the DVD release that he and Cosby agreed early on that "Our statement is a non-statement" regarding race, and the subject was never discussed again.) As a strait-laced Rhodes scholar fluent in many languages, Cosby's "Scotty" was really the brains of the team. His partner (Culp) was the athlete and playboy who lived by his wits.

Then, of course, came The Cosby Show's years of illustrating a non-stereotypical black family, almost never talking directly about it.
You're going to wait 2 weeks for your app and any updates to be approved anyway.
If you are on a big screen, it might not be obvious. It's in the upper right and it's very subtle.
10 seconds. That is too quick for me. If you are messing around perhaps thats ok, but a project which is a click to include feels wrong for anything more than a tiny app which does something very basic.

Immediately when I create an app like this using this, I have clicked to include libraries. How does this import only the things that I want.
How about the following:

1. Find a substance that is chemically tooth-like

2. Split it into predefined volumes (little cubes or spheres)

3. Add the beverage and saliva to the "tooth", wait a month, and measure the decrease in "tooth" volume.

4. Use regression to estimate the coefficients for sugar, pH, and whatever else.
This is a pointless rant; the Slate article is clearly about presentation, and he's basically agreeing with it. He's right in that double-spacing what amounts to source code might be a good idea, but that doesn't change the fact that two-spacing in Word is Bad and lots of people still do it.

This is an example of a typical geek habit of jumping on the edge case and trying to use it to disprove a well-meaning article. That Slate article isn't for you; nobody cares or judges your Latex/HTML formatting.
Ahh yes, he killed the infamous stylus suggestion for the iPad
Awfully convenient that the etc. happened to be in brackets then. I guess the previous sentence ends at the etc. when I don't put it in quotes and after then if I do.
That's basically correct, though I would hasten to point out that of course they can't change the license of any versions of the software that have already been released.
Plivo (YC S12) is hiring Inside Sales/Account Manager
All caps is when all letters are capital, not just the first letter of each word. The latter style is called title case.
It's more nuanced than "it looks better in his opinion".

Typewriters used monospaced fonts. The old consensus on the "two spaces" rule came about because it made things easier to read on typewriters. Source code editors are also monospaced, so why not the same rule for the same reason?
Did you even read the whole article? He directly addressed your first reason. The second reason is weak IMO. What if you forget a period? What if you forget a space between words? If you double space, forgetting it is a typo just like any other typo.
Firefox Beta introduces preliminary support for a social api
You rebut the author by reiterating arguments he already addressed in his post ("most people don't like it", "only typewriters need it", plus a consistency point he didn't address). Do you feel his rebuttals to those arguments were insufficient? What do you think of the concrete benefit he suggested of two-spacing in vim?
> I’ve found men to be more laid back, friendlier, and easier to talk to than women.

I had to stop reading there. Is this article supposed to be an example of what real sexism looks like?
In particular, styling and layout with CSS. People seem to want seamless HTML to PDF conversion, and providing that without a LaTeX intermediary seems to be the best way to go.
Here's the interview I published with the creator! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-a-google-engineer-b...